train might readily pass in and out. When the wind was in the north, this situation was found very cold, and it was proposed to move the court farther back, to a warmer place. "But the Lord Chief Justice Bridgman," says North, "would not agree to it, as it was against Magna Charta, which says that the
Common Pleas shall be held in certo loco (in a certain place), with which the distance of an inch from that place is inconsistent, and all the pleas would be coram non judice (before one who is not the proper judge)." (Text.)—Croake James, "Curiosities of Law and Lawyers."
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Sea Helping the Land—See Evidence, Providential. Sea, The—See Solace of the Sea. Sea, The, As a Land Grabber—See Mutation. Sea, Wealth of the—See Opportunity Lost. Seaman, A Struggling—See Coolness in Danger. SEASICKNESS The ship upon clearing the harbor ran into a half-pitching, half-rolling sea that became particularly noticeable about the time the twenty-five passengers at the captain's table sat down to dinner. "I hope that all twenty-five of you will have a pleasant trip," the captain told them as the soup appeared, "and that this little assembly of twenty-four will reach port much benefited by the voyage. I look upon these twenty-two smiling faces much as a father does upon his family, for I am responsible for the safety of this group of seventeen. I hope that all fourteen of you will join me later in drinking to a merry trip. I believe that we eight fellow passengers are most congenial, and I applaud the judgment which chose from the passenger-list these three persons for my table. You and I, my dear sir, er—here, steward! Bring on the fish and clear away these dishes."—National Monthly.
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Searching Christ, The—See Christ, The Searching.
Seaweed, The Value of—See Utilizing Seaweed.
SEARCHING FOR VALUES
As we behold men going up and down the
cornfields of history, they are plucking the
ears of corn as they journey. What are you
reaching after with those long mental fingers,
O Shakespeare? "I've seen how the corn
of human nature grows upon the stalk of
life, and I'm plucking at the heart of this
mystery." What are those great hands
grasping after, O Beethoven? "I'm dreaming
of unblended harmonies my deaf ears
have never heard, and these hands are trying
to pluck them from out the invisible
realms of harmony." Why run those hands
up into the sleeve of darkness, O Milton?
They seem to be straining after something.
"Worlds of light lie behind these dead eyes
of mine. I've seen an angel and heard him
sing, and these hands are fumbling about in
the darkness hunting for words to tell about
his song." What are those majestic hands
reaching after, O Angelo? "I need a few
bars of light, a few bursts of morning, a
few scraps of sunset, to show men how God
paints pictures. I'm plucking the golden ears
of color from nature's garden to hang up in
a picture gallery."—F. F. Shannon.
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SEARCH-LIGHTS
Moral and spiritual search-lights are needed to warn and illuminate the soul, just as the search-lights noted here are used to help the mariner as he approaches land.
"It has been announced," says The Electrical Review, "that one of the features of
the Lewis & Clark exposition will be a large
search-light surmounting Mount Hood. This
will be used to good effect for illuminating
the snow-capped mountain-peaks within one
hundred miles of the light. It is also said
that the beam thrown from this search-light
will be visible to vessels one hundred miles
off the coast. This statement suggests that
the search-light might be used as a valuable
aid in lighthouse service, for warning vessels
when they are approaching land. The
ordinary range of visibility of a lighthouse
is about twenty or twenty-five miles. For a
lightship it is somewhat less, as the light is
lower. Now, a powerful search-light can
throw a beam upward which will be seen
thirty or forty miles, under favorable conditions.
It is probable that a powerful ray
thrown vertically upward from a lighthouse
would be visible long before the direct rays
of the lighthouse could be seen. A some-
